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The Media Student’s Book

Welcome to the website for The Media Student's Book, 5th edition!

The book and the website together form a comprehensive introduction for students of media studies. They cover all the key topics and provide a detailed, lively and accessible guide to concepts and debates. The website is structured in four main parts, addressing key concepts, debates, research skills, and media production.

Individual chapter sections include:

Approaching media texts

Narrative

Genres and other classifications

Representations

Globalisation

Ideologies and discourses

The business of media

New media in a new world?

The future of television

Regulation now

Debating advertising, branding and celebrity

News and its futures

Documentary and ‘reality’ debates

From ‘audience’ to ‘users’?

Research: skills and methods

Each chapter section includes a range of examples to supplement the book, such as additional new and classic case studies and related links.